Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office staff of four is working twelve to fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, to keep abreast of the flood of new subscriptions...
...Franklin Roosevelt now concedes that he cannot roll prices back (see p. 21) to last September's levels, as his April "hold-the-line" order contemplated. But his price lieutenants still hope that a new program, plus normal operations of the law of supply & demand as summer vegetables flood in to market, will keep the cost of living within reasonable bounds...
...that glory the ashes were already thick. The dead face of more than one rival might flood by in Benito Mussolini's remembrance: Giacomo Matteotti, the murdered Socialist who defied castor oil and clubs; Italo Balbo, cut down when he grew too popular in the Fascist State. Then there was the dead face of his son, Bruno, a casualty of the war the father had glorified. Then the dead faces of those hundreds of thousands of men lost with the empire in Africa, the dead and fear-racked faces of millions of civilians fleeing their bombed homes...
...landmarks are now setting out from Boston's Park Square, in horse-drawn busses, to visit Old North Church and Bunker Hill; now go by bus and train to see the Minute Man statue on Lexington's Green and Concord's "rude bridge that arched the flood...
...Italian people for "freedom from fear." This ancient outcry comes from a Mussolini-bred national psychosis that Italy has al ways been kicked around, instead of being boosted by helping hands to No. 1 posi tion in the world. Its effectiveness could be judged by a recent flood of letters to Washington protesting the bombing of Italian cities...